Damon Albarn arrives at Central station in Glasgow. He was among dozens of musicians who arrived in Glasgow on the African Express ahead of performing at The Arches to celebrate the venue's 21st birthday. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA

Dalinda Guillen of Rio Grande City, Texas holds her daughter Cinco, aged 2, as they wait for the start of day one of the Democratic national convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Little and large: a canoeist paddles past a Swedish submarine, HMS Neptun as it's hoisted ashore onto a trailer for its final journey to a Naval museum in Karlskrona, southern Sweden this afternoon. Photograph: Scanpix/Reuters

Ken Clarke uses binoculars as he sits the stands during day one of the LV County Championship Surrey and Nottinghamshire at the Oval this afternoon. Clarke was replaced as Justice Secretary by Chris Grayling following the cabinet reshuffle. Photograph: Paul Gilham/Getty Images

Indian firemen and rescue workers clear the debris at the site of a railway bridge collapse in Mumbai today. A section of an under-construction Metro rail bridge collapsed in the city killing one person and wounding eleven people. Photograph: Punit Paranjpe/AFP/Getty Images

But here comes the sun: workers install solar panels containing photovoltaic cells at the new Solarpark Eggersdorf solar park near Muencheberg, Germany. The park, which is being built by German solar energy operator juwi Solar GmbH, will contain 85,000 solar modules and is one of many similar projects in eastern Germany. Photograph: Jochen Eckel/Getty Images

Women supporters of Pakistani religious party Jamaat-e-Islami attend a pro-hijab rally in Lahore, Pakistan today. Nationwide rallies were organized to observe Hijab Day to highlight what the group sees as the importance and value of the veil for Muslim women. Photograph: K.M. Chaudary/AP

A photograph taken today with a fisheye lens of the Phoenix international media centre under construction in Beijing. Designed by the Beijing-based architectural firm BIAD UFo, the building is scheduled to be completed this year and will house the headquarters of the satellite television channel Phoenix TV as well as other offices and restaurants. Photograph: Diego Azubel/EPA

Looking pretty pleased Justine Greening leaves No 10 Downing Street after meeting with David Cameron to receive her new appointment as international development secretary in Cameron's first cabinet reshuffle. Photograph: Will Oliver/AFP/Getty Images

A Chinese paramilitary officer talks on his radio while guarding the Forbidden City in Beijing. US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is scheduled to arrive in Beijing later today. Photograph: How Hwee Young/EPA

Worcestershire batsman Nick Harrison walks back up the stairs after becoming the ninth wicket to fall as Worcestershire are eventually dismissed for just 60 runs in their first innings during day one of the LV County Championship Division One game between Worcestershire and Warwickshire at New Road in Worcester. Photograph: Stu Forster/Getty Images

Firemen attempt to beat out the flames as they fight a fire in a forest at Quinta da Sobreira, Portugal. The fire is being fought since yesterday by 185 firelighters and aircrafts. Photograph: Nuni Andre Ferreira/EPA

Family and friends of Lieutenant Andrew Chesterman, look on as he is placed into the hearse outside of Bristol Cathedral, where his funeral is being held. Chesterman, of 3rd Battalion The Rifles, was shot by enemy forces in Nad-e Ali district of Helmand, Afghanistan. Photograph: Ben Birchall/PA

That back to school feeling. Pupils wait in the courtyard as they arrive at the Germaine Tillion primary school at the start of the new school year in Lyon, eastern France. Photograph: Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty Images

Vistors look at the mosaic floor in Siena cathedral. Magnificent Renaissance mosaics covering the marble floor in the cathedral have been unveiled to give visitors a rare glimpse of scenes it took local artists 500 years to create. Photograph: Fabio Muzzi/AFP/Getty Images

Bharatiya Janta party pro-Telangana activists brave water-cannon as they break through barricades towards Indian police personnel during a protest in New Delhi on this morning. The activists are demanding the government to immediately take steps to form a separate state of Telangana. Photograph: Manan Vatstayana/AFP/Getty Images

For the bread basket: combine harvesters cut wheat in a field belonging to the "Svetlolobovskoye" farm outside the village of Svetlolobovo, near the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk this week. Photograph: Ilya Naymushin/Reuters

A doctor, left, checks the patients at a malaria and dengue fever clinic in Kolkata, India, this morning.The city may be facing a dengue fever outbreak. Two children have died at BC Roy Children's Hospital in the last few days. Photograph: Piyal Adhikary/EPA

It was back to school after the summer holidays at a primary school in Bordeaux, France today, too. More than 12 million students from kindergarten to high school are back in class, where they will find about 850,000 teachers waiting for them. Photograph: Caroline Blumberg/EPA

Children whose parents are migrant workers in the playground of Zhaoxia Primary School in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province, on the first day of term. Photograph: Liu Junxi/Xinhua Press/Corbis

Woman enter a government-run employment office in Madrid this morning. According to the labour ministry, Spain's jobless rate increased by 0.83 percent in August from a month earlier, or by 38,179 people, leaving 4.63 million people out of work. Photograph: Aandrea Comas/Reuters

Students sit under banners in front of the central government complex in Hong Kong this morning as students and teachers protested for a sixth day against plans to introduce Chinese patriotism classes. Photograph: Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images

Prince Harry attends the Goalball on day 6 of the London 2012 Paralympic Games at The Copper Box with British Paralympic Association chief executive Tim Hollingsworth. Photograph: Chris Jackson/Getty Images

Indonesian Muslim activists shout slogans during a protest rally against US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to Indonesia, in front of the US Consulate General in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, this morning. Photograph: Bagus Indahono/EPA

Things are not much better in central Portugal: here a firefighter works to douse the fire in Ribeira do Farrio, near Ourem. The Portuguese have asked other European countries to send help as the country's firefighters struggle to contain forest blazes being fueled by high temperatures and strong winds. Photograph: Francisco Seco/AP

Also in the States, a firefighting helicopter drops water on a wildfire in the Angeles National Forest north of Glendora, California, last night, a day after the wildfire broke out near a campground and forced the evacuation of thousands of campers and picnickers it had grown to more than 4,100 acres, or roughly 6 square miles. Photograph: Jason Redmond/AP

Meanwhile Barack Obama, met with local residents during his tour of the Bridgewood neighbourhood in LaPlace, Louisiana, as he toured the area to survey the ongoing response and recovery efforts to Hurricane Isaac. Photograph: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP